{"id":3822,"date":"2025-06-16T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:34:35","slug":"russia-should-be-in-g8-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/russia-should-be-in-g8-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia should be in G8 \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excluding the country from the group of primarily Western major economies was \u201ca big mistake,\u201d the US leader has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has called Russia\u2019s removal from the group of major Western economies (G8) a mistake, arguing that the country\u2019s presence could have helped prevent the escalation of the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n

Russia joined the group originally known as the G7 in 1997. It includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US, and also the EU as a \u201cnon-enumerated member.\u201d<\/em> Moscow\u2019s membership was suspended in 2014 following Crimea\u2019s reunification with Russia, upon which the G8 reverted to the G7. Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and become part of Russia via a referendum in the aftermath of a Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.<\/p>\n

Trump made the remarks on Monday at the opening of the G7 Leaders\u2019 Summit in Canada, recalling that Russia had been part of the group before.
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\u201cThe G7 used to be the G8,\u201d<\/em> he said at his first meeting of the summit with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “[Former US President] Barack Obama and a person named [former Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau didn\u2019t want to have Russia in.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0
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\u201cAnd I would say that that was a mistake, because I think you wouldn\u2019t have a war right now if you had Russia in, and you wouldn\u2019t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago,\u201d<\/em> he argued.<\/p>\n

Trump repeatedly criticized Russia\u2019s exclusion and floated the idea of bringing Moscow back during his first term, though the proposal was rejected by other members.<\/p>\n

In February, Trump once again said he would \u201clove\u201d<\/em> to see Russia back in the group.<\/p>\n

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\n READ MORE: <\/span>G8 has lost its relevance \u2013 Kremlin
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The Kremlin responded by saying the G7 has \u201clost its relevance\u201d<\/em> as it no longer reflects current global economic dynamics. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed to the G20 as a more representative format, noting it includes fast-growing economies like China, India, and Brazil. \u201cThe G20 better reflects the economic locomotives of the world,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has been calling for a settlement to the Ukraine conflict, said at the G7 summit: \u201cYou spend so much time talking about Russia, and [Russian President Vladimir Putin is] no longer at the table,\u201d<\/em> which he said \u201cmakes life more complicated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excluding the country from the group of primarily Western major economies was \u201ca big mistake,\u201d the US leader has said US President Donald Trump has called Russia\u2019s removal from the group of major Western economies (G8) a mistake, arguing that the country\u2019s presence could have helped prevent the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. Russia joined…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}